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Doctor (Fictitious character)

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingDoctor (Fictitious character)
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Variant(s)The Doctor (Fictitious character)
Doctor, The (Fictitious character)
Doctor Who (Fictitious character)
Who, Doctor (Fictitious character)
Dr. Who (Fictitious character)
Who, Dr. (Fictitious character)
Theta Sigma (Fictitious character)
Sigma, Theta (Fictitious character)
Smith, John (Fictitious character from Doctor Who)
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Q34358
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34358
308763513
http://viaf.org/viaf/308763513
896044
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/896044
Associated countryGreat Britain
Associated placeEarth (Planet)
Place of birthGallifrey (Imaginary place)
Field of activityTime travel
Profession or occupationExplorers Inventors Scientists
Special noteDo not confuse with: Dr. Who, scientist in King Kong Escapes (1967)
Found inDoctor Who (Television program : 2005- ). Season 1. Doctor Who. The complete first series, 2006.
Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- ). Season 2. Doctor Who. The complete second series, 2007.
Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989). Battlefield. Battlefield, 1998.
Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989). Nightmare of Eden, 1999.
New dimensions of Doctor Who, 2013.
Wikipedia, May 15, 2014: Doctor Who (Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord--a time-travelling humanoid alien. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-travelling space ship.) Doctor (Doctor Who) (The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films and one made-for-television film, as well as a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series. Within the show, "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien who travels through space and time in his TARDIS; the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet of Gallifrey; "Doctor" is not the character's true name, which has been left unrevealed. He adopts it as an alias for reasons undisclosed in the series itself)
BBC One Doctor Who website, May 15, 2014: Characters> The Doctors (The First Doctor, also known as: Doctor Caligari; Theta Sigma; The Second Doctor, also known as: John Smith; Doctor von Wer; The Third Doctor, also known as: John Smith; The Fourth Doctor, also known as: The Evil One; The Eighth Doctor, also known as: Doctor Bowman (from London); The Ninth Doctor, also known as: The Oncoming Storm; The Tenth Doctor, also known as: Doctor James McCrimmon; The Eleventh Doctor, also known as: Raggedy Man / The Caretaker)
   <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0/features/doctors>
The Doctor Who site, May 15, 2014: Doctor Who guide > Characters > The Doctor (The Doctor; 1st incarnation - The 1st Doctor; 2nd incarnation - The 2nd Doctor; 3rd incarnation - The 3rd Doctor; 4th incarnation - The 4th Doctor; 5th incarnation - The 5th Doctor; 6th incarnation - The 6th Doctor; 7th incarnation - The 7th Doctor; 8th incarnation - The 8th Doctor; 9th incarnation - The War Doctor; 10th incarnation - The 9th Doctor; 11th incarnation - The 10th Doctor; 12th incarnation - The 10th Doctor; 13th incarnation - The 11th Doctor; 14th incarnation - The 12th Doctor)
TARDIS data core wiki, May 15, 2014: The Doctor (The Doctor was the primary alias of a renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey who travelled through time and space with various companions in his obsolete and "borrowed" Type 40 TARDIS; The Doctor's true name remained unknown to all but a very few individuals, such as Samantha Jones, River Song and possibly Clara Oswald; According to Dorium Maldovar and the Silence, the oldest and most dangerous question in the universe was "Doctor Who?" The Doctor's true name was apparently the answer; The Seventh Doctor mentioned to Trevor Sigma that his nickname at college was Theta Sigma)
Gifford, Clive. So you think you know Dr Who?, 2007.
Clute, J. The encyclopedia of science fiction, 1993 (Dr. Who)
Wikipedia, June 28, 2018 (The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who; since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by twelve lead actors; "the Doctor" is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien--a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey--who travels through space and time; Jodie Whittaker made her first appearance as the Thirteenth Doctor at the end of the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time"; in the early years of the franchise, the character was credited as "Doctor Who" or "Dr Who")
Wikidata, June 28, 2018 (The Doctor; fictional character from Doctor Who; sex or gender: male, excluding Thirteenth Doctor; female, applies to part Thirteenth Doctor; place of birth: Gallifrey; occupation: explorer, inventor, scientist)
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Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNsh 92000695